Born Wellington in 1973, Callum Arnold gained a Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honours, 2000, Masters of Fine Arts, 2001 from the University of Canterbury, School of Fine Arts.
Graduate Diploma in Teaching and Learning (Secondary) 2002 from the Christchurch College of Education

Currently working in Christchurch.

My work is primarily concerned with geographic experience and the transpositions of media upon that knowledge. The understanding of the visual world through photography, film and T.V. has given the viewer an experience mediated through technology. The inherent spiritual nature of the land has become diffused through the context of new media and associations are made from its own visual history. The act of looking for dramatic panoramic landscapes in dislocated spaces is limited to viewing from roads and the visual memory contained within sequential photographic records.

Using multiple images within the borders of a single work the visual experience is reconstructed through the process of drawing and digital media, which create new surreal environments. Through the act of painting the visual image is no longer an accurate rendering of the actual world but a collaboration of processes. (Callum Arnold artist statement 2011)

His paintings are “reminiscent of a Sunday journey. …Long drives through the landscape are experienced in passing through the car window.”